| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. One's ancestors or their character or one's ancestral derivation: ancestry, birth, blood, bloodline, descent, extraction, family, genealogy, line, lineage, parentage, pedigree, seed, stock. See KIN, PRECEDE. 2. The initial stage of a developmental process: beginning, birth, commencement, dawn, genesis, inception, nascence, nascency, onset, opening, outset, spring, start. See START. 3. A point of origination: beginning, derivation, fount, fountain, fountainhead, mother, parent, provenance, provenience, root1, rootstock, source, spring, well1. See START.
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